Team Lead Engineering - Finance Automation (f/m/d)

• You lead a product-focused engineering team that builds and evolves Zeal's core B2B platform capabilities for internal business customers
• In collaboration with your PM you act as the primary partner between Finance and Core Platform Engineering building trusted relationships and translating financial requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
• Drive the automation of reconciliation, accounting workflows, and financial data processing, reducing manual effort and increasing operational reliability.
• Ensure the reliability, integrity, and auditability of finance-critical data across platform services and infrastructure changes.
• Hire, Build and lead a team of 2 engineers: Hire, develop, and grow a high-performing team, fostering an ownership-driven and reliability-focused engineering culture
• Lead technically and strategically, define and drive architectural decisions together with your team
• Code as part of the team: While guiding architecture and strategy, you’ll regularly write code, contribute to features, and help solve complex technical challenges together with your team
• Champion the effective use of AI in your team's engineering workflows (e.g. AI-assisted development and tooling) and explore opportunities to apply AI within the platform's capabilities
• Deliver secure, robust and maintainable technical solutions while focusing on business needs
• Drive collaboration: Work closely with other teams to align APIs, technical interfaces, and architectural consistency
• Own and operate the domain and the team’s microservices.

WHAT YOU OFFER US:

• Proven people leadership skills, with an empowering style that enables rather than micromanages
• Ability to translate complex business and financial requirements into scalable technical solutions and platform capabilities.
• Strong and up-to-date hands-on experience working with Kotlin/Spring Boot, SQL (PostgresDB)
• A “You build it, you run it” mindset, with experience in deploying, monitoring, and maintaining microservices on Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of how to create and evolve Event-driven processing pipelines built on Kafka.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in building secure, scalable, and reliable systems, including security-by-design, resilience patterns, and operating production systems at scale.
• Experience with agentic AI development practices and operating models.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• State-of-the-art technologies and an agile environment (Check our Tech Radar: https://lotto24.github.io/tech-radar/)
• A modern, dynamic culture grounded in the success of a leading-edge e-commerce company.
• A talented team of ambitious, like-minded colleagues where your knowledge and ideas truly make an impact.
• Ongoing personal growth, supported by an annual development budget of €1,500 to invest in your professional development.
• Trust and autonomy, no micromanagement, just confidence in your ability to deliver and excel.
• Flexible work options with a hybrid setup focused on results.
• Unlimited vacation days in addition to your yearly 30-day vacation allowance.
• Opportunity for workations abroad using our WorkFlex tool.
• Monthly mobility allowance of €30 to use on the mobility option of your choice (e.g., the Deutschlandticket), plus access to a company bike leasing program.
• Company pension scheme, provided in partnership with Degura, to support your future financial security.
• Subsidized EGYM WELLPASS membership, with a contribution of only €25 per month, giving you access to a wide range of gyms and sports options across Germany.
• Monthly company events, team activities, and informal gatherings, including our popular company-wide lunches provided four days a week.

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Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation